This
afternoon I emailed a radio talk show host, a former colleague at a
local station. For years, this woman has called attention to the ravages
of illegal immigration.

Now
she tells her listeners that GOP presidential candidate John McCain
is the answer to what ails this country.

I
reminded her of her criticisms of immigration policies that have trashed
our neighborhoods, highways, schools, hospitals, social service agencies,
prison budgets and the like, and asked how she could now support a candidate
who never met an amnesty bill he did not absolutely gush over.

I
also asked the supposed “conservative” talker how she could push McCain
when his track record shows he’s not pro-life, not pro-2nd amendment
and not even close to being fiscally conservative. I also reminded her
that the man she believes is the best choice for president sponsored
some of the most horrific anti-first amendment legislation when he penned
the McCain-Feingold bill.

“So
exactly how is McCain any different on those issues than his Democrat
opponents?” I wanted to know.

Her
response was “well, he’d be a whole lot better than Hillary or Obama
and at least he’s strong on the war.”

Responses
like that are common from people who know in their hearts that once
again, pushing the party line has gotten harder and harder to do.

Nowhere
in her response did she try to counter my assertions that McCain is
no different than the she-candidate and the Obama-nation who’s running
against her.

The
talk show host simply responded: “at least he’s strong on the war.”

“At
least” McCain supports an illegal, immoral, unconstitutional incursion
into a country that we now know (and perhaps did before the blood started
flowing) had nothing to do with 9-11- the supposed reason we started
the killing and mayhem 5 years ago. “At least” the war that’s
costing us and our grandchildren’s grandchildren $2.5 billion a week
is something this candidate’s “strong” on.

“At
least” McCain has said he doesn’t care if we’re in Iraq for 100
years and it would even be advisable to “bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb
Iran.”

“At
least” there’s that.

GOP
apologists across the breadth of this formerly blessed Republic are
clinging to the war in Iraq as if it were some sort of mandate for electing
a president who’d keep our boys and toys tied up in the bloody sands
of first one middle eastern hellhole, then another.

“Conservative”
commentator Linda Chavez appeared downright giddy over the prospect
that Americans are seemingly less opposed to the war than they have
been recently. Chavez cited recent Pew Research Center polls showing
Americans are –to use Chavez’s words
“more upbeat” about the war. Saying
those polled had a hard time coming up with the correct number of casualties
to date, she extrapolates that means they’re “less focused” on the dead
bodies inside those flag-draped caskets we’re not allowed to see.

Chavez
predicts that lack of “focus” will bode well for the Republican candidate
come November, since, she reasons, both Democrats talk down the war.

Unlike
neo-con Chavez, paleo-con Richard Viguerie predicts the Republicans
will not do well in November. Pointing to the recent loss of the House
seat held for 20 years by Dennis Hastert, Viguerie, chairman
of Conservative HQ.com said “It's a wakeup call for John McCain...
proof that conservatives are prepared to sit out the 2008 elections.”

Senator
McCain… will pay the price in November. The farther we go down this
road, the longer it will take to repair the relationship between conservatives
and the Republican Party. The damage that’s being done will affect the
party for years to come”, Viguerie predicted.

The
Republican candidate who has a 100% constitutionally- correct voting
record (including votes that make it clear this war was a mistake) and
who believes that “earmarks” and pork barrel spending are not acceptable,
is Congressman Ron Paul. However, the media, along with the man’s own
party, have completely ignored him. “Conservative” pundits who purport
to speak for the right wing of the Republican Party in no way represent
a growing number of Americans who just do not swallow the party line
anymore.

The
Hannity’s and Limbaughs and O’Reilly’s are not telling it like it is
for us. And time and time again I find myself asking, “Do they really
believe what they’re telling us day in and day out?”

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Thankfully,
there is an alternative.

After
the fastest-growing third party selects
a presidential candidate in April, Americans will start hearing
about a man in whom they can believe, for the simple reason that the
candidate nominated by the Constitution Party really will believe the
things he’ll be telling us, because he’ll be telling us what the Founding
Fathers said two centuries ago.

She
is currently the Communications Director for the Constitution Party. The
Constitution Party is
the fastest-growing minor political party (www.ballot-access.org)
and is made up of Americans who believe a return to constitutional government
is imperative.